>It is no secret that saddam use massive amount of violence to keep the country together. In fact I cannot see any other way to keep the country together with various conflicting ethnic groups. Why do you think the US such a trouble keeping peace in iraq ?
How many troops from the Netherlands are in Iraq? The US is probably having trouble because the Iraqi people won;t let them steal their oil. Maybe it's 100K Iraqis killed. Here's one europeans view point:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=753&e=10&u=/ap/20041102/ap_on_sc/britain_iraq_hawkingIs that a good answer? Do you have a better one?
>Never heard of him.... or he must be nicknamed "ali chemically" who was held resonsible for producing the gas.
WRONG! Iraq got the gas weapons from the US - the deal was closed by our current secretary of defense, Don Rumsfeld
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52241-2002Dec29?language=printer
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